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  • Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms
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    Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms

    Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of artificial intelligence raises questions about whether human beings will maintain control of the use of force. The notion of meaningful...
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  • Canada as Statebuilder? Canada as Statebuilder?
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    Canada as Statebuilder?

    Canada's statebuilding efforts in Afghanistan are not well documented. After fourteen years of significant investments in humanitarian causes, there are still questions about the impact of these projects and whether they delivered as promised or fell...
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  • Telecom Tensions Telecom Tensions
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    Telecom Tensions

    Today's internet service providers mediate communication, control data flow, and influence everyday online interactions. In other words, they have become ideal agents of public policy and instruments of governance. In Telecom Tensions Mike Zajko...
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  • John Stuart Mill, Socialist John Stuart Mill, Socialist
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    John Stuart Mill, Socialist

    Best known as the author of On Liberty, John Stuart Mill remains a canonical figure in liberalism today. Yet according to his autobiography, by the mid-1840s he placed himself ""under the general designation of Socialist."" Taking this self-description...
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  • Global Politics of Poverty in Canada Global Politics of Poverty in Canada
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    Global Politics of Poverty in Canada

    In the 1960s and 1970s, in the midst of the Cold War and an international decolonization movement, development advocates believed that poverty could be ended, at home and abroad. The Global Politics of Poverty in Canada explores the relationship between...
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  • Coping with Geopolitical Decline Coping with Geopolitical Decline
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    Coping with Geopolitical Decline

    How great powers react to their inevitable decline shapes their own destiny as well as the course of international politics. Leaders can decide to engage with others or isolate themselves; to build alliances or initiate war; to stoke up nationalism or...
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  • Canadian Federalism and Its Future Canadian Federalism and Its Future
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    Canadian Federalism and Its Future

    The time is ripe to revisit Canada's past and redress its historical wrongs. Yet in our urgency to imagine roads to reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, it is important to keep in sight the many other forms of diversity that Canadian federalism has...
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  • Frequencies Frequencies
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    Frequencies

    Our digital world is increasingly mobile. All mobile communication rests upon access to one invisible, essential element: the radio spectrum. In Frequencies Gregory Taylor and Catherine Middleton bring together diverse national perspectives to explore...
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  • Big Moves Big Moves
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    Big Moves

    All countries have distinctive urban regions, but Canadian cities especially differ from one another in culture, structure, and history. Anthony Perl, Matt Hern, and Jeffrey Kenworthy reveal that despite the peculiarities and singular traits that each...
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  • Strangers to Neighbours Strangers to Neighbours
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    Strangers to Neighbours

    As a leading country in global refugee resettlement, Canada operates a unique program that allows private groups and individuals to sponsor refugees. This innovative approach has received growing international attention, but there remains a need for a...
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  • Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis
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    Canada and the Ukrainian Crisis

    Since 1991, Canada has provided Ukraine with ongoing political and economic assistance. Never was this policy pursued with more urgency than in 2014, when Russian aggression prompted the Canadian government to elevate its support for Ukraine to a foreign...
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  • Who Pays for Canada? Who Pays for Canada?
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    Who Pays for Canada?

    Canadians can never not argue about taxes. From the Chinese head tax to the Panama Papers, from the National Policy to the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement, tax grievances always inspire private resentments and public debates. But if resentment and...
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  • International Education as Public Policy in Canada International Education as Public Policy in Canada
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    International Education as Public Policy in Canada

    In the early twenty-first century international education emerged as an almost ubiquitous concept within discussions of educational curriculum; the objectives of schools, universities, and colleges; and government policies for K-12 and higher education...
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  • Militant Suffrage Movement Militant Suffrage Movement
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    Militant Suffrage Movement

    The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British...
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  • The Inclusion Calculation The Inclusion Calculation
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    The Inclusion Calculation

    In The Inclusion Calculation, Melody E. Valdini examines women's representation in politics and offers insights into men's strategies for using women to advance their own political ambitions. While it is certainly valuable to encourage women to run for...
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  • The Captured Economy The Captured Economy
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    The Captured Economy

    In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a new culprit for increasing inequality: the government-corporate sector nexus. They explain how wealthy special interest groups have captured the governmental regulatory process, and...
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  • The Politics of the Pill The Politics of the Pill
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    The Politics of the Pill

    In The Politics of the Pill, Rachel VanSickle-Ward and Kevin Wallsten tell the story of contemporary birth control policy and the role that women played in it. First, they chart the twists and turns of a fascinating, controversial and consequential...
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  • The Long Hangover The Long Hangover
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    The Long Hangover

    The Long Hangover reveals a lost generation: the millions of Russians who lost their country and the subsequent attempts to restore to them a sense of purpose. Now in paperback with a revised preface, this book presents deep analysis and vibrant...
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  • The Liberty Driven Revolution The Liberty Driven Revolution
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    The Liberty Driven Revolution

    Discover the lost meaning of Liberty that was at the heart of the American Revolution and how this one idea united a nation and resulted in the Constitution. Tyrants were supposed to be bound by the "chains of the Constitution", but today it is the...
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  • The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary
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    The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary

    This 352-page manifesto will put many other political books to shame. For its intriguing, enthralling assessments of the socialistic mindset and its detrimental hold on American society, The Ranting of an Uneducated Reactionary offers the reader an...
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  • The Immigrant Divide The Immigrant Divide
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    The Immigrant Divide

    This nuanced book offers a rare in-depth analysis of Cuban immigrants' social, cultural, economic, and political adaptation, their transformation of Miami into the "northern most Latin American city," and their cross-border engagement and homeland impact.
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  • Cyberactivism Cyberactivism
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    Cyberactivism

    Cyberactivism is a timely collection of essays examining the growing importance of online activism. The contributors show how online activists have not only incorporated recent technology as a tool for change, but also how they have changed the meaning...
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  • Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era
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    Self-Determination in the Post-9/11 Era

    This book discusses the increasing tendency in certain government quarters to incorporate struggles by peoples for their self-determination into the wider anti-terrorist agenda of the post-9/11 era. This tendency distorts the laws of armed conflict and...
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  • Democratic Revolution in Ukraine Democratic Revolution in Ukraine
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    Democratic Revolution in Ukraine

    In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes, made covertly in his office, ordering...
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  • Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century
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    Maritime Diplomacy in the 21st Century

     This book aims to redefine maritime diplomacy for the modern era. Maritime diplomacy encompasses a spectrum of activities, from co-operative measures such as port visits, exercises and humanitarian assistance to persuasive deployment and coercion. It is...
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  • The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence
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    The Relationship between Rhetoric and Terrorist Violence

    This book presents findings from a research effort funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, which examined whether linguistic content analysis can indicate whether groups will engage in terrorist violence.
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  • Semantics of Statebuilding Semantics of Statebuilding
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    Semantics of Statebuilding

    This volume examines international statebuilding in terms of language and meanings, rather than focusing narrowly on current policy practices.
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  • Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation
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    Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from South Africa to Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Rwanda and Australia, the authors argue for an alternative approach to post-conflict thought. Featuring contributions from both up and coming and well-established...
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  • Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform
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    Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform

    Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to...
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  • Radical Shakespeare Radical Shakespeare
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    Radical Shakespeare

    This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing...
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  • International Politics and Performance International Politics and Performance
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    International Politics and Performance

    Exploring a wide range of issues including rioting, youth-driven protests, border security practices and the significance of cultural awarness in war, this text provides an accessible and cutting edge survey of the intersection of international...
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  • Timor Leste Timor Leste
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    Timor Leste

    This book provides a comprehensive country overview of Southeast Asia's newest nation, Timor Leste (East Timor). This book focuses on its cultural and ethno-linguistic diversity, and its political history from the pre-Portuguese period up to 2009. The...
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  • Building Bangalore Building Bangalore
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    Building Bangalore

    Examining spatial transformations in Bangalore, one of India's fastest growing cities, this book highlights the influence of information and communications technology (ICT) development on the city. Focusing on the production of urban space and the...
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  • U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective
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    U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective

    This book refutes the claim that American foreign policy has varied considerably across time and space, arguing that key policy goals and underlying ideological and political factors have not significantly changed over the last hundred years.
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  • New Democracies in Crisis? New Democracies in Crisis?
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    New Democracies in Crisis?

    This book considers whether the potential of democracy following the end of the Cold War was diminished by technocratic, judicial control of politics in the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. It explores the complexities and drawbacks of...
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  • Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule
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    Civil Society Activism under Authoritarian Rule

    This book examines how civil society actors operate under authoritarian constraints, and examines how this is linked to regime change.This book moves beyond traditional notions of civil society and explains the complexity of state-society relations in...
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  • States of War since 9/11 States of War since 9/11
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    States of War since 9/11

    This multidisciplinary edited volume explores how the spread of the 'War on Terror' has entwined matters of state sovereignty and states of war into mutually affecting relations. Pre-emptive attacks on terrorist groups in 'rogue' states, 'outsourcing' of...
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  • Spiraling Webs of Relation Spiraling Webs of Relation
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    Spiraling Webs of Relation

    This work builds on indigenous theory as evident in the writing of Willie Ermine, Gregory Cajete, Craig Womack, Jace Weaver, Laurie Anne Whitt, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Voila Cordova, Dennis McPherson, and others. It works towards a criticism that, in...
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  • The Maastricht Treaty The Maastricht Treaty
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    The Maastricht Treaty

    The Maastricht Treaty introduced a number of revolutionary changes to the European Union. This volume brings together a group of leading scholars to reflect on the developments in each of these key areas over the past 20 years, and on this basis to...
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  • Insuring War Insuring War
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    Insuring War

    Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have...
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  • Issues in American Politics Issues in American Politics
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    Issues in American Politics

    This wide ranging book provides readers with a reliable and lively guide to contemporary American political practices, processes and institutions.
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  • Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule
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    Islamization of Turkey under the AKP Rule

    This book examines the decade in office of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its efforts to transform the Turkish republic toward a more Islamist-oriented system.This book was published as a special issue of the Turkish Studies.
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  • Politics and Religion in the United States Politics and Religion in the United States
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    Politics and Religion in the United States

    There is a complex relationship between religiosity and secularism in the American experience. America is notable both for its strict institutional separation of church and state, and for the strong role that religion has played in its major social...
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